Group Lead

Aryan Rezaei Rad, Dr. ès Sciences
Assistant Professor,
Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering
Education:
- Docteur ès Sciences, Civil Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, (2020).
- Financially supported by the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Digital Fabrication centered at ETH Zürich.
- MSc., Civil (Earthquake) Engineering, Tehran Polytechnic (Amirkabir University of Technology), Iran (2015).
- BSc., Civil Engineering, University of Guilan, Iran (2012).
Professional membership:
- Registered civil engineering member in the Canton de Vaud section (ID: 528121), Swiss Society of Engineers and Architects (SIA), Switzerland (2020-2022)
Current Members
Graduate Students
Ph.D. Students

Amirhossein Heidari,
Research project:
- Development of innovative sustainable mass timber structural systems using digital fabrication technology.
- Supervisor: Aryan Rezaei Rad.
Master of Engineering (M.Eng) Students

Arthur dos Santos Azevedo Borja de Brito,
Research project:
- Comparative assessment of mass timber buildings with conventional construction materials using automation and computational design.
- Supervisor: Aryan Rezaei Rad.
Undergraduate Students

Emily Dang,
Project:
- Mass Timber Buildings in Canada – Typologies and Structural Performance.
- Supervisor: Aryan Rezaei Rad.
Former Members
Undergraduate Students

Joel Algra,
Project:
- Digital Design Workflow for Timber Frame Structures Using Computational Methods: Automation in Woodframe Design.
- Supervisor: Aryan Rezaei Rad.

Alastair Sim,
Myra Li,
Nicole Chan,
Noah Subedar,
Shujie Li,
Multi-Disciplinary Capstone Design project:
- ASPENLOG 2020 – Applied Specified Environmental Load Generator 2020.
- Supervisors: Kamran Behdinan, Aryan Rezaei Rad.